Age of Conan New Player Tips and Hints By: Apparitionea

This was originaly posted on the Set forums. I decided to copy and paste it here so more people could see it and help it grow. I will keep both updated as time allows. I hope you enjoy.

Below you will find some hints and tips that will help you get used to AOC. This is an ongoing project of mine. Anyone who wants to add things or see things added let me know. I apologize if any of the information is off. I type this up while at work so I’m doing this from memory. If something is wrong just let me know.

Where do I level at? Rexxar posted this in another thread. So to him goes the credit. Press M in-game to look at your map, on the world map you can hover your mouse over all the zones, and it shows a recommended level range for the area’s quests.

Game Time Explained. by Golden220 Tortage is simply day or night depending on what you choose it to be. After you leave Tortage, the game time constantly cycles from day to night. The game time is on a ratio of: -1 Minute Real Time = 5 Minutes Game Time Therefore -A complete Day/Night cycle or 24 hours happens every 4.8 hours, so we’ll call it: 4.8 hours real time = 1 day game time As for when it turns from day to night. There is both a dusk and dawn period. Dawn seems to be from about 0400 to 0600, where at dusk seems to be ~2000 to 2130. I need to recheck these times, or if anyone has them please post.

To add a Map marker Right click on the Mini map or main map and choose make Marker. This is useful for marking harvesting nodes.

/ Commands To view a list of / commands. Type / TABTAB. This will bring up a list just like the emotes. Below is a list of / commands with descriptions. Those with a ? next to them means I do not know what they do.

Help I’m stuck! 1. Try /stuck this has worked for me every time. 2. If it does not work. Try using your Path skill. 3. If you are still stuck then type in /petition and a GM will be with you asap. Please be patient they may be busy.

/who command added by bamboosonnet The first button on the upper left (People and PvP I believe) has all the search options. There’s one for Player, Group, Guild, and PvP.

Emotes For a list of emotes type /emote TAB This will bring up a full list of emotes.

Claim To claim your CE awards use /claim

Walk and run Autorun is the NUM LOCK button. Toggle between walk and run with Backspace.

Active Blocking and other combat tips 1. I didn’t know this existed until today. The hot key is X give it a shot. 2. Double tapping a direction will give a short duration ‘buff’. Backwards add evade, forward adds chance to stun- helpful in multiple situations. {{By Telemachos Thank You!!}}

Overflow If you complete a quest and your bags are full. Your quest reward is not lost. 1. Look next to the mini map you should see a !. 2. Make room in your bags. 3. Click the ! 4. Claim your reward. aka Profit!!!

Respec If you mess up on your feats or your skills do not fear. Both can be redone. However both do cost a small amount of coin.

Skills are first up. 1. Hit P to bring up skill list. 2. Hold down ALT and left click on the skill you wish to get rid of. 3. Confirm the skill respec 4. Add the points back to wherever you would like.

Next up Feat Respec In each major city their are NPC’s that will wipe your advancement tree for you. All that you do is talk to them confirm the wipe and pay the small fee. The first time I did it, it cost 50 copper.{{ I am at work so I don’t have the cords with me. If anyone can look them up it would be appreciated. If not i will snag them when I get home.}}

Climbing 1. Hit the P key. 2. Add points into climb. At level 20 I had 100 points allocated. I have found nothing as of yet I can’t climb. Feel free to correct me or give feedback on this.{{ I was informed there is a quest that requires 180 in Old Tarantia}} 3. Move to the climbable object. Hit the U key. Up you go!

Guild Information You can start a guild at level 20. To do so follow the below steps. 1. In the upper left hand corner of yor screen you will see three tabs. Click the third one. 2. Fill out the information. Choose a guild name and a type of government. From what I can tell the type of government doesn’t change anything. Just the names of the ranks.

To invite someone go to the social tab {{ the first tab on the left hand side }} and select add name. Type in the name and check add to guild. Click ok. That’s all their is to it. Happy recruiting.

Zone instances If you are grouped but can not see your party members. As leader of the group right click on the party member’s name and select bring to instance. I am not sure of the wording but it’s easy enough to figure out. Also near the mini map you will see a drop down. One of the choices are change instance. You can tell who in your group is in what instance easily through this. A star next to an instance is where the group leader is at. A human symbol represents where group members are at.

Traders Saving this space for locations and a short how to as soon as they become available again.

Dual wieldContributed by Azara If you have it. Put two one-handed weapons on the lower LEFT of your paper doll inventory page. The icons for those are a sword and a shield. The Right side sword and shield are for alternate weapons.